HORIZON Europe: INTEGRATED DIGITAL SOLUTION FOR SUSTAINABLE AND RELIABLE MANAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS.

Start year: 2024

Summary: The increase in energy demand in industry, buildings, services, and transportation together with the associated greenhouse gas emissions bring great challenges to the energy sector. To face them, this sector must aggressively look for more efficient ways of operations so as to support this growing consumption, avoid supply problems and, at the same time, reduce operating costs. The answer to these challenges lies in digitalization, which is one of the essential pillars for the transformation of this sector in Europe and worldwide. INTEREST goes beyond the state of the art, with the objective of developing a hierarchical distributed Model Predictive Control for real-time monitoring and energy management of renewable energy systems with improved features such as sustainability, stability, reliability, and replicability. This objective will be addressed using innovative tools that will bring intelligence to the system, allowing a more preventive than reactive performance, which is fundamental to overcoming the challenges already presented. Such innovations are essential to increase the system's efficiency by improving the control of the energy flows. INTEREST will bring to practice the concepts of predictive maintenance and joint energy and health management by using data intelligence for a better understanding of demand, predicting, and anticipating undesirable faults in a self-healing operation. The ending status of INTEREST concept can be expressed by TRL5 aiming to boost the European outstanding position in global applied science. This way INTEREST solution presents a great potential of being a leading exporting technology focusing on the emergent markets worldwide and ensuring the political priorities of sustainable. Strongly aligned with the EU policy framework for climate and energy, the outcomes are oriented towards the development of comprehensive, innovative, and evidence-based frameworks to move Europe into a technological leadership position in this field.

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.